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Reimaged linux server, restored to different VM, tons of errors

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
I imaged my vpn server as I need to setup another. I restored the image but now it wont boot. I think the drive "letters" changed order or something so it refuses to boot.

I get tons of "could not find filesystem /dev/root" and stuff like that.

Is there any hope in getting this system back and running or am I screwed? I really don't want to have to reconfigure openvpn again... that took me like 3 weeks of pulling my hair. There is no easy to follow setup doc. Everything is just all over the place.

On the other hand if I do end up setting up from scratch I can maybe take the time to make a better doc and release it to public.
 
yeah I can get those files so it might speed up a bit but theres still lot of embeded configs that cant be transfered over.
 
Without specific error messages it's going to be hard for anyone to help you. From what you've said it sounds like just changing your bootloader config and possibly editing /etc/fstab will fix your problem. If you use grub you can hit c to drop to a command line and then try to manually boot or you can hit e and edit the current boot config and make changes. Neither method is permanent.
 
Yea, without exactly what's happening we can't really help you. I've had no problems tarring up Linux boxes and restoring them inside of VMs. All I ever had to do was fixup the initrd to include the new storage driver and possibly fixup /etc/fs tab and it booted just fine. And that was just because it was a really old FC box so the initrd didn't have all of the storage drivers.
 
This is the error I get:

I don't have any volgroups (at least I don't recall, as I usually manually partition) so that error is normal I think... but the rest is not.

http://www.iceteks.com/misc/extvpnsrv-error.jpg


edit: Trouble shooting more. It looks like it DID have volgroups, which make things very confusing. I'm trying to remove them now but no luck, it's like deep embeded in the installation. Normally it goes /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 etc but this install is really weird. Think I'll just go ahead and clean install and be sure to do the manual partitioning. I must of did auto when I installed this the first time, and it makes these weird type of partitions.
 
I don't have any volgroups (at least I don't recall, as I usually manually partition) so that error is normal I think... but the rest is not.
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It specifically says root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 so it's looking for a LVM volume for it's root filesystem.
 
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